WORLD  RFCONSTRUCTION  PAPERS  — No.  11 


A Woman’s  Life 
and  the  World’s  Work 

By 

Mrs.  HELEN  BARRETT  MONTGOMERY 


STUDENT  VOLUNTEER  MOVEMENT 
25  Madison  Avenue,  New  York 


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A WOMAN’S  LIFE 
AND  THE  WORLD’S  WORK 

By  Helen  Barrett  Montgomery 

The  girl  of  today  is  not  seeking  for  an  easy  place. 
She  knows  that  she  has  but  one  life  to  invest,  and  is 
eager  to  invest  it  where  what  she  has  to  give  will 
earn  the  largest  returns  for  the  betterment  of  the 
world. 

Missionary  service  is  one  of  the  big  opportunities 
open  to  those  who  honestly  desire  to  do  hard  things 
that  will  count  in  places  that  are  apt  to  be  over- 
looked. The  experiences  of  the  great  war  have  thrown 
into  the  foreground  the  claims  which  Christianity’s 
unending  struggle  for  the  conquest  of  the  world 
makes  upon  the  students  of  all  countries.  In  the 
light  of  recent  experiences  of  heroism  and  sacrifice 
for  a great  cause  missionary  service  gains  a fresh 
appeal. 

There  is,  first,  the  appeal  of  danger  and  difficulty. 
The  woman  contemplating  foreign  mission  service 
must  face  oftentimes  isolation  in  unlovely  surround- 
ings, the  lack  of  many  of  the  decencies  and  comforts 
of  life,  the  presence  of  unchecked  contagion  and  dis- 
ease, the  deadening  influence  of  low  ideals  of  life, 


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the  barriers  of  alien  speech  and  custom;  all  these, 
and  in  addition,  not  infrequently,  actual  danger  and 
suffering.  These  very  disabilities  constitute  one 
strong  appeal  of  the  task.  There  are  more  volun- 
teers seeking  to  go  to  Africa  or  to  Tibet  than  to  the 
more  attractive  stations  in  Tokio  or  Bombay.  The 
heart  of  youth  is  not  afraid  of  difficulty.  The  Cru- 
sader of  Christ  does  not  shun  danger. 

There  is,  second,  the  appeal  of  great  need  and 
suffering.  Two-thirds  of  the  women  of  the  world  are 
in  the  prison  of  dense  ignorance,  unable  themselves 
to  read  the  simplest  book,  and  without  any  means  of 
contact  with  the  printed  page.  Two-thirds  of  the 
women  of  the  world  are  without  girlhood,  social  in- 
tercourse, equipment  for  their  task  of  home-building, 
or  legal  status  as  free  persons.  Two-thirds  of  the 
women  of  the  world  are  without  the  medical  aid  of 
doctor,  nurse  or  hospital.  Two-thirds  of  the  women 
of  the  world  face  its  sorrows  without  the  spiritual 
leadership  of  Christ.  The  needless  sacrifice  of  mil- 
lions of  lives,  the  appalling  moral  evils,  the  pathetic 
helplessness  and  the  unsatisfied  yearnings  of  these 
millions  of  women  constitute  a call  to  the  Christian 
women  of  the  world  that  cannot  be  silenced. 

There  is,  third,  the  appeal  of  a world  in  convul- 
sion. All  that  can  be  shaken  is  tottering.  A new 
world  must  be  founded  and  built  up  out  of  the  wreck 
and  confusion  of  the  present.  In  this  rebuilding  the 
Cross  must  be  central,  fundamental.  Whoever  has 


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the  Gospel  in  trust  has  a summons  to  share  its  treas- 
ures such  as  no  previous  generation  has  ever  heard. 
Here  and  now  is  the  Church’s  supreme  opportunity 
to  plant  deep  in  the  heart  of  the  world  the  life-giving 
Gospel  of  Christ. 

The  opportunities  for  service  are  many  and  di- 
verse. While  there  is  not  yet  and  may  not  soon  be 
on  the  foreign  field  very  much  room  for  narrowed 
specialization,  there  is  a growing  opportunity  for  the 
woman  definitely  prepared  to  do  a definite  piece  of 
work.  The  differing  lines  of  work  have  one  thing  in 
common : they  all  demand  the  woman  with  the  abil- 
ity to  lead  and  direct  and  inspire  others.  The  woman 
going  into  overseas  service  in  this  army  of  peaceful 
penetration  goes  always  into  an  officers’  training 
camp.  Unless  she  possesses  a genuine  capacity 
for  leadership,  it  were  better  to  remain  in  the  home 
land  where  there  are  many  opportunities  for  honor- 
able service  under  direction  in  lines  already  estab- 
lished. The  foreign  missionary,  whether  in  the  iso- 
lated out-station,  or  in  the  great  urban  centers, 
should  always  be  seeking  and  securing  the  oppor- 
tunity to  work  through  the  women  of  the  country 
to  which  she  is  sent  and  to  develop  them  into  lead- 
ership. The  woman,  for  example,  who  is  capable  of 
conducting  only  one  well  organized  kindergarten  is 
not  so  much  needed  as  the  one  who  can  train  scores 
of  kindergartners  to  do  the  work  among  their  own 
people.  The  evangelist  who  can  go  about  scattering 


the  good  seed  of  the  Kingdom  from  her  own  hands  is 
not  so  much  needed  as  the  one  who,  like  her  Master, 
can  teach  and  inspire  and  send  out  into  the  white 
harvest  field  bands  of  sowers  and  reapers. 

Among  the  diversified  forms  of  service  it  will  be 
possible  to  mention  only  a few  broadly  typical. 

First,  there  is  the  work  of  the  teacher.  Probably 
more  women  are  needed  as  teachers  than  is  the  case 
in  regard  to  any  other  form  of  foreign  mission  serv- 
ice. The  teacher  is  needed  in  all  grades  of  schools, 
from  kindergarten  to  college.  Her  educational  equip- 
ment, training,  and  experience  should  be  of  sufficient 
breadth  and  depth  to  equip  her  for  the  direction  of 
a school  of  many  grades.  She  may  herself  do  com- 
paratively little  teaching,  but  she  must  be  able  to 
supervise  and  inspire  the  native  teachers,  win  their 
respect  for  her  educational  qualifications,  and  infuse 
into  the  class  room  the  active  spirit  of  Christianity. 
Although  she  may  begin  by  opening  a primary  school, 
it  is  not  at  all  improbable  that  within  ten  years  she 
may  find  herself  responsible  for  a school  comprising 
all  grades  up  to  and  including  the  high  school.  She 
must  be  adequate  as  an  educator  to  direct  such  ex- 
panding work.  The  kindergartner,  to  be  sure,  has 
a more  closely  limited  sphere  of  responsibility.  But 
it  is  essential  that  she  have  a grasp  of  both  kinder- 
garten and  primary  school  technique  and  be  able  to 
relate  the  one  to  the  other. 

Certain  specialized  departments  of  education  are 


calling  loudly  for  teachers.  For  example,  Oriental 
women  are  eager  for  western  music  and  western 
musical  instruments.  A well  organized  and  spirited 
music  department  is  a necessity  in  the  high  schools 
and  boarding  schools  of  many  fields.  The  music 
teacher  is  able  to  attract  to  our  Christian  schools 
many  who  would  otherwise  be  beyond  the  reach  of 
missionary  influence.  Piano  and  organ  lessons, 
chorus  and  part  singing,  and  in  some  cases,  school 
orchestras  are  among  the  features  of  the  music 
courses  of  many  schools.  In  addition  to  the  cultural 
value  of  the  study  of  music,  the  teacher  of  music  has 
opportunities  for  direct  personal  work  on  spiritual 
lines.  This  gives  a rich  missionary  content  to  her 
service. 

Drawing,  both  freehand  and  mechanical,  has  a 
recognized  place  in  school  systems  of  various  Oriental 
countries,  and  there  is  a limited  call  for  teachers  of 
these  subjects. 

Domestic  science  and  arts  are  gaining  increasing 
recognition  in  Oriental  school  systems.  Well 
equipped  teachers  of  these  subjects  are  demanded, 
who  are  able  to  adapt  western  methods  to  the  dif- 
fering needs  of  the  Orient.  One  of  their  greatest 
opportunities  will  be  in  the  training  of  the  young- 
women  of  the  East  to  meet  the  necessity  for  better 
and  more  scientific  home-building. 

The  teacher  of  athletics  and  physical  culture,  too, 
will  find  a place.  Group  games,  out-of-door  games 


involving  team  work,  are  part  of  the  big  social  serv- 
ice which  missionary  schools  are  rendering  in  the 
Orient.  Education  through  play  is  a new  and  strange 
idea,  so  foreign  to  native  ideals  and  customs  that  a 
good  deal  of  promotion  is  necessary  in  order  to  make 
the  community  take  play  seriously.  However,  base- 
ball, tennis,  and  basket  ball  ai'e  already  acclimated 
in  China,  India  and  Japan,  through  the  efforts  of 
American  missionaries.  Better  bodies,  better 
health,  better  morals  are  already  evident  among  the 
student  body  in  these  countries. 

Industrial  and  trade  schools  are  now  recognized 
as  legitimate  channels  of  missionary  activity.  Since 
for  the  most  part  the  industries  of  the  Orient  are 
agricultural,  there  is  a demand  for  the  teacher 
trained  in  agriculture — animal  husbandry,  dairying, 
horticulture,  poultry  raising,  etc.  The  need  that 
primary  education  in  village  and  rural  communities 
be  correlated  with  the  daily  life  of  the  people  is 
very  great.  Beginnings  have  been  made.  The  de- 
mand for  this  sort  of  rural  school  of  elementary 
grade  is  already  acute.  An  interesting  illustration 
of  the  possibilities  already  realized  was  seen  during 
a great  mela  or  fair  recently  held  in  Allahabad,  In- 
dia, where  the  ladies  of  the  Rajah’s  harem  took 
courses  of  cooking  lessons  in  a properly  secluded 
place.  These  lessons  were  given  by  enthusiastic  mis- 
sionary women.  The  mission  had  exhibits  of  poultry 
and  was  visited  by  thousands.  Sleek  cattle  were 


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shown.  Their  phenomenal  records  in  milk  produc- 
tion called  forth  the  wondering  admiration  of  many 
farmers.  There  were  model  silos,  demonstrations 
regarding  the  selection  of  seeds,  exhibits  of  fruits 
and  vegetables,  and  other  practical  and  helpful 
features  which  brought  the  work  of  the  school  of 
agriculture  very  close  to  the  entire  community. 
Through  the  help  given  by  this  experimental  school, 
Christian  villages  in  many  localities  have  been  en- 
abled to  lift  themselves  into  a new  standard  of  com- 
munity life. 

There  is,  second,  the  service  rendered  by  the  phy- 
sician and  nurse.  The  need  for  medical  women  is 
probably  more  acute  than  any  other  on  the  foreign 
field,  although  the  number  of  physicians  and  nurses 
which  can  be  used  is  not  so  great  as  the  number  of 
teachers.  Most  women  of  the  Orient  must  be  minis- 
tered to  by  women,  if  ministered  to  at  all.  To  re- 
lieve their  intolerable  physical  sufferings  aiid  to 
prevent  the  injury  done  to  the  coming  generation 
through  ignorant  and  superstitious  practices,  it  is 
imperatively  necessary  that  there  be  a greatly  aug- 
mented force  of  physicians  and  nurses.  These  are 
needed  not  only  to  manage  the  hospitals  for  women 
and  children  and  to  train  native  nurses,  but  also 
and  chiefly,  to  educate  and  equip  native  women  as 
physicians. 

The  women  of  America  and  Europe  can  never 
meet  the  medical  needs  of  the  Orient.  There  are 


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in  China  two  hundred  million  women  and  children, 
among  whom  only  ninety-three  women  physicians 
are  at  work.  For  the  one  hundred  and  fifty  millions 
of  women  and  children  in  India,  there  are  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty-nine  woman  physicians.  The  one  hun- 
dred million  in  Moslem  lands  have  only  twenty 
women  doctors,  and  the  fifty  million  in  Africa  fifteen, 
of  whom  five  only  are  Americans.  So  great  is  the 
dearth  of  properly  trained  American  women  in  the 
Orient  that  nearly  a score  of  hospitals  are  closed  for 
lack  of  physicians.  In  many  cases  these  small  hos- 
pitals are  the  only  ones  within  a radius  of  several 
hundred  miles.  Plenty  of  missionaries  are  at  work 
in  stations  where  they  must  travel  a week  or  more 
to  reach  the  nearest  physician  or  hospital. 

What  they  cannot  do  by  themselves  the  medical 
women  of  America  and  Europe  can  do  through  train- 
ing the  women  of  the  Orient.  Thanks  to  the  efforts 
of  tl^e  schools  during  the  last  two  generations,  there 
already  exists  in  India  and  China  a limited  number 
of  women  who  are  prepared  to  undertake  thorough 
medical  education.  This  number  is  swiftly  rising, 
and  its  efficiency  is  increasing.  Medical  schools  for 
women  are  already  established  in  India  and  China, — 
few  in  number  and  inferior  in  equipment  at  present, 
but  great  with  promise  for  the  future.  The  Women’s 
Missionary  Boards  of  the  world  are  rallying  for  the 
support  of  these  medical  schools,  and  within  the  next 
few  years  there  will  be  not  less  than  four  equipped 


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to  offer  first-rate  medical  training.  A few  women  of 
the  most  modern  thorough-going  preparation  and 
high  grade  standing  are  needed  to  staff  medical 
schools  in  China  and  India  and  Moslem  lands.  Many 
more  physicians  are  needed  to  open  the  closed  hos- 
pitals and  adequately  to  staff  them.  The  number  of 
nurses  who  are  needed  is  naturally  in  excess  of  the 
number  of  physicians.  The  opportunities  for  the 
nurse  in  social  and  community  work  are  unexcelled 
by  those  open  to  any  other  missionary.  Both  physi- 
cians and  nurses  can  find  full  scope  for  their  pro- 
fessional abilities  and  a wonderful  field  in  which  to 
incarnate  the  Gospel  of  the  Good  Physician. 

There  is,  third,  the  varied  service  of  the  evangelis- 
tic worker.  Evangelism  has  been  receiving  fresh 
emphasis  during  the  last  few  years.  Christianity 
must  not  become  segregated  in  great  educational  in- 
stitutions. It  must  go  out  in  aggressive  warfare 
against  the  strongholds  of  evil.  In  a sense,  all  mis- 
sionaries are  evangelists.  No  woman  without  a posi- 
tive gospel  has  any  business  on  the  foreign  field.  In 
their  desperate  needs,  these  great  nations  are  not 
asking  us  for  critical  theories  or  doubts;  they  are 
asking  if  we  have  Good  News  to  communicate.  But 
in  addition  to  this  all-pervasive  atmosphere  of  evan- 
gelism, there  is  an  important  field  specifically  known 
as  “evangelistic.”  Under  this  term  is  included 
the  work  of  the  woman  of  special  gifts  in  public 
speech  who  is  able  to  speak  persuasively  to  groups 


of  women  in  private  homes  or  to  larger  audiences 
in  church  or  school  house.  There  is  the  woman  who 
has  special  training  in  the  teaching  and  interpreting 
of  the  Bible,  and  in  training  others  to  present  it. 
There  is  also  the  woman  who  is  not  afraid  of  pioneer 
work,  who  delights  to  go  out  into  the  country,  among 
the  people  who  have  never  heard  of  Christianity. 
The  particular  abilities  of  such  a woman  lead  her 
not  so  much  to  train  and  develop  Christian  character 
among  the  rising  Christian  communities,  but  rather 
to  go  out  into  untouched  fields  to  interpret  the  Gos- 
pel to  the  people  for  the  first  time. 

A woman  who  looks  forward  to  some  form  of 
evangelism  for  her  life  work  is  rarely  able  to  enter 
upon  it  during  her  first  term  of  service  in  the  foreign 
field.  She  is  not  equipped  for  such  work.  Her  ig- 
norance of  the  language,  customs,  and  point  of  view 
of  the  people  bar  her  from  access.  She  usually  ac- 
quires the  necessary  knowledge  of  people  and  lan- 
guage in  some  school  position,  where  she  begins  her 
work  with  her  pupils. 

As  the  number  of  educated  women  on  the  field  in- 
creases, the  type  of  evangelist  who  is  most  useful  is 
the  one  who  knows  how  to  inspire  and  direct  others 
in  carefully  planned  evangelistic  effort.  There  are 
today  women  on  the  field  who  are  engineering  efforts 
designed  to  use  the  abilities  of  scores  of  native 
women  evangelists.  There  are  also  great  Bible  train- 
ing schools  to  which  pastors’  helpers,  Bible  women 


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and  Sunday  School  teachers  come  in  large  numbers 
for  brief  periods  of  training.  Following  the  train- 
ing they  return  to  their  villages  to  pass  on  to  others 
the  hymns  and  Bible  portions  and  practical  instruc- 
tions in  daily  living  which  they  have  received. 

One  of  the  undeveloped  sectors  in  the  evangelistic 
field  is  the  Sunday  School.  The  need  for  better  and 
more  thorough  Sunday  School  work  among  the  chil- 
dren is  already  recognized  as  acute  in  every  Oriental 
country.  The  helps  for  the  Sunday  School,  the  chil- 
dren’s papers,  the  stories,  the  lesson  outlines,  are 
still  unsatisfactory.  One. of  the  big  pieces  of  work 
of  the  immediate  future  is  to  bring  the  Sunday  School 
work  of  most  foreign  fields  abreast  with  the  stand- 
ards already  obtained  in  our  own  country. 

Fourth,  there  is  a whole  new  world  of  opportunity 
to  serve  that  new  woman  of  the  Orient,  the  woman 
in  industry. 

The  growing  industrialism  of  the  Orient  is  creat- 
ing new  problems  which  missionaries  must  meet. 
This  calls  for  the  woman  who  has  specialized  among 
factory  operatives  and  child  workers.  Christian 
countries  are  much  further  advanced  in  recognizing 
the  evils  of  burning  up  the  woman  and  child-power 
of  the  nation  through  unregulated  industrial  opera- 
tion. Non-Christian  countries  are  for  the  most  part 
yet  unawakened  in  regard  to  the  peril.  Missionary 
leadership  of  the  very  highest  type  will  be  required 
in  the  campaign  to  create,  arouse  and  line  up  public 


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opinion  in  the  non-Christian  lands  to  combat  the 
industrial  evils  which  the  Orient  is  bound  to  inherit 
alongside  the  undoubted  benefits  of  modern  indus- 
trial organization.  Already  women  are  the  greatest 
sufferers  from  excessive  hours  of  labor,  low  wages, 
unhygienic  surroundings  and  bad  moral  conditions 
in  the  factories  of  Japan,  China  and  India.  The 
foreign  department  of  the  Young  Women’s  Chris- 
tian Association  and  the  Women's  Boards  of  Foreign 
Missions  are  now  giving  serious  consideration  to  the 
problems  of  the  factory  girl. 

Fifth,  there  are  needed  women  with  a gift  and 
skill  in  writing.  The  demand  for  clean  Christian  lit- 
erature is  becoming  acute.  Many  of  the  rising 
Christian  communities  are  not  yet  able  to  write  and 
publish  their  own  books.  Missionaries  must  be  set 
apart  to  translate,  adapt,  edit  periodical  literature, 
and  supervise  the  work  of  native  committees.  In 
all  China  there  is  just  one  child’s  picture  book,  one 
children’s  magazine.  In  many  vernaculars,  the  Bible, 
hymn  book  and  a few  text  books  are  the  only  books. 
The  woman  who  looks  forward  to  literary  work  must 
serve  a long  apprenticeship  until  she  shall  have  mas- 
tered the  language  and  penetrated  into  the  daily  life 
of  the  people. 

The  need  for  volunteers  in  several  lines  of  work 
has  been  sketched : the  teacher  who  must  lay  the 
foundations  of  Christian  society  by  educating  the 
women  and  girls,  who  are  in  most  non-Christian 


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lands  illiterate;  the  physician  and  nurse  who  must 
not  only  alleviate  the  suffering  but  make  the  begin- 
nings of  medical  education  among  the  women  of  the 
Orient;  the  evangelist  and  Sunday  School  leader;  the 
social  worker  in  industrial  centers.  Many  other  re- 
quirements can  only  be  mentioned.  A few  dentists 
are  already  at  work ; others  will  be  called  for.  Labo- 
ratory workers  in  hospitals,  stenographers,  secre- 
taries, business  agents,  are  in  occasional  demand. 
There  are  needed  house  mothers  in  girls’  dormitories, 
matrons  and  superintendents  of  buildings,  though 
the  number  of  such  positions  is  necessarily  limited. 
The  growing  philanthropic  work  is  bound  to  make 
demands  for  trained  women.  There  are  hospitals 
and  colonies  for  lepers,  insane  asylums,  schools  for 
the  blind  and  the  deaf  under  mission  auspices.  The 
woman  who  is  looking  forward  to  work  abroad  may 
find  that  her  training  has  fitted  her  for  some  such 
outpost  of  Christian  service. 

Last,  there  is  the  detained,  the  truly  detained,  vol- 
unteer. Few  think  of  a missionary  career  as  being 
open  to  her ; but  in  reality  she  is  one  of  the  im- 
portant factors  in  the  work  of  establishing  the  King- 
dom of  God  on  earth.  Sometimes  a young  woman 
consecrates  herself  to  overseas  service  and  later  finds 
that  the  providential  ordering  of  her  life  makes  it 
impossible  for  her  to  carry  out  her  purpose.  The 
Lord  who  has  accepted  her  self-dedication  and  en- 
rolled her  as  His  soldier,  assigns  her  to  duty  in  the 


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home  land.  Let  her  not  rebel.  In  the  great  world 
war,  the  victorious  peace  would  have  been  impos- 
sible without  the  help  of  those  who  served  behind  the 
lines.  In  some  sense  the  very  crisis  of  the  foreign 
mission  enterprise  is  here  in  America.  There  are 
forms  of  service  in  promotion  of  foreign  missions 
which  are  open  to  every  detained  volunteer.  These 
forms  are  varied  enough  to  provide  full  scope  for 
many  forms  of  ability. 

There  are,  for  example,  careers  open  for  those 
who  can  interest  and  teach  little  children.  The  mis- 
sionary work  among  the  children  of  our  churches  is 
largely  undone.  Here  and  there  a struggling  chil- 
dren’s band  appears,  runs  its  brief  course  and  passes 
away.  But  if  ever  we  are  to  have  missionary 
churches,  we  must  have  missionary  training  for  the 
children,  and  the  leaders  for  this  work  must  be 
found  among  our  college  girls.  The  missionary  story 
teller  will  never  fail  of  an  enraptured  audience.  It 
is  her  privilege  to  summon  the  missionary  heroes 
of  the  future  into  the  field  through  the  lasting  im- 
pressions which  she  creates  in  the  hearts  of  chil- 
dren. Positions  of  great  importance  in  the  ranks  of 
the  volunteer  workers  of  our  women’s  organizations 
in  the  various  Protestant  denominations  remain  long 
unfilled.  There  are  presbyterial  secretaries  and 
synodical  secretaries  and  secretaries  in  conferences, 
in  associations  and  dioceses.  All  of  these  unpaid 
positions  need  to  be  filled  by  volunteer  workers  of 


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enthusiasm,  ability  and  consecration.  Any  detained 
Volunteer  is  likely  to  find  one  of  them  within  her 
reach,  loudly  calling  to  her  for  aid. 

Missionary  literature  goes  undistributed  because 
there  is  no  one  to  make  this  distribution  her  life 
work.  Missionary  facts  go  unwritten,  or  are  writ- 
ten in  a lifeless  and  inefficient  way  for  lack  of  some 
one  clever  and  capable  and  well  educated  enough  to 
write  them  out  with  compelling  power. 

Other  opportunities  there  are  too  numerous  to 
catalogue  here.  The  girl  with  dramatic  ability  may 
direct  and  present  missionary  playlets.  The  one  who 
can  draw  may  make  charts  and  posters.  The  girl 
with  executive  ability  may  galvanize  into  activity 
some  somnolent  local  auxiliary.  Then  there  are  the 
paid  secretarial  positions  in  state  and  national  or- 
ganizations. These  demand  women  of  very  high 
grade  and  afford  to  those  who  enter  them  oppor- 
tunities to  shape  the  missionary  policy  of  great  for- 
eign mission  boards. 

Let  us  not  forget  the  girl  with  the  check  book. 
If  she  cannot  go  as  a foreign  missionary  she  need 
not  lack  for  a missionary  career.  She  may  send  out 
her  substitute  and  support  her.  Possibly  she  may 
herself  go  out  for  a year  or  two  at  her  own  charges 
to  help  relieve  some  overworked  missionary  of  her 
labors  in  account  keeping  and  report  making. 

Whether  here  in  her  own  country  or  in  the  very 


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ends  of  the  earth,  it  is  only  required  that  a volunteer 
be  found  a true  soldier,  one  who  recognizes  that  she 
is  under  orders,  with  a commission  to  fulfil  and  a 
Captain  to  obey. 


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